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Originally Posted by delphidb96
That's a bunch of bullpuckey! In the suburb of Sacramento in which I live there are over seven used book stores within a 5-mile radius. Each and every copy sold in those stores is a complete rip-off of the authors and publishers (using the same definition as they have created about ebooks) because neither publishers nor authors sees a dime of income on the used-book sales. I know several dozens of people who buy, then trade in for 'store credit', which they then use to redeem other traded-in books. If treated carefully, a used book can allow readers to 'steal the income' several dozen times over. Do you suggest we ban the operation of used book stores simply because they don't enrich the publishers?
Then how can you, even sarcastically, make the same claim about ebooks?
Derek
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I'm not necessarily defending DRM here, but I do want to answer your question.
A used book is a single entity. There's
that used book... or
those used books. Each one was bought and paid for new at one time, gaining the publisher and author their due profits.
OTOH, you can copy an ebook. And copy the copy of the copy of the copy... without any degradation. And so on and so forth. With anything pirated on the Internet, copies can go for infinity, without the e-books ever running out. And only
one of those perpetually infinite copies started out as something that was paid for, only
one of those perpetually infinite copies led to compensating the publisher/author. This is opposed to a used book store where
every copy had some initial compensation going to the author/publisher.
-Pie